Video — Kung Fu Piano: Cello Ascends (The Piano Guys – Wonders of the World Series)

Kung Fu Piano: Cello Ascends 
(The Piano Guys Wonders of the World Series)

This is the first in the series where The Piano Guys go to one of the 7 Wonders of the World.  In this video, they go to the Great Wall of China. Enjoy the video again.





You can read more about the New 7 Wonders of the World in simple English here:
New 7 Wonders of the World 

Lesson 5 – Data Visualization Upgrade and SUCCESS Report

Data Visualization Upgrade
You shared your new data visualizations. 

SUCCESS Report
You reported on the messages of two companies.

Homework

• Prepare a report presentation about the slogan(s). Use the SUCCESS checklist and find examples of commercials, posters, advertisements and how the other items from the checklist were used to make their messages sticky.
• Prepare outlines for three ideas for your The Next Step presentation. 
• A next step that was taken by you or someone else in the past.
• A next step that you or someone else should take to reach a goal.
• Advice for someone planning to take the next step.

Lesson 4 – SUCCESs (Sticky Ideas)

In this lesson, you showed your data visuals and I gave feedback. Improve your visuals or make new ones based on the feedback and on the slides I showed you. You can see those slides again in the slideshow below.

Layering Graphs from Daniel Beck

We looked at the SUCCESs acronym from the book Make It Stick by Chip and Dan Heath. 

Find a message (commercial, story, saying) and analyze it with the SUCCESs formula. You can see the slides from that presentation below.

Sticky Presentations from Daniel Beck

Video — Gangnam Style (Cover by Jayesslee on YouTube)

We watched Jayesslee's (Janice & Sonia Lee) cover of Psy's Gangnam Style. They are a talented pair of Korean-Australian twin sisters from Sydney. Enjoy it again below:

Lesson 3 – Data Visualization

First Presentation Revision
You presented again with your revised slides.


Data Visualization
I taught you about making graphs and visuals.

Data Slide Rues from Daniel Beck

Video — Cello Wars (Star Wars parody by The Piano Guys on YouTube)

The Piano Guys are my favorite YouTube artists. They have great music AND great videos. This one is a parody of my favorite movie from my childhood, Star Wars. Now people call it Episode IV (4) or A New Hope, but it was Star Wars to us when it came out. It wasn't until the stupid prequels (Episodes I, II & III) years later that those names were used.

The ideas of lightsabers, fighting ships flying across the screen, laser guns and The Force were all new and very cool. Star Wars was the first real blockbuster movie. If you wanted to see it when it came out, you might have had to wait hours and there were no reserved seats back then. It stayed in the cinemas for over a year.

I have included a modern trailer of the movie below the Piano Guys video. The original trailer was not very good. Enjoy!

Lesson 2 – First Presentation

First Presentation
You gave your first presentation and I gave you feedback. 


Images Mini-lecture
I gave a short presentation on the use of images in your presentations. We looked at negative space, the rule of thirds, and bleeding images. Try to use these concepts in your future presentations. You can review the concepts in the slideshow below.

GTB Prezo Images from Daniel Beck

Font Mini-lecture

We learned about the difference between serif fonts and sans serif fonts and other principles.

Presentations fonts from Daniel Beck

Homework
Upgrade your first presentation based on the feedback and mini-lectures.